Carol Zimmermann, Author at Crux

Convocation ‘great opportunity’ for U.S. church, sister says

The “Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America”, a major summit of American bishops, clergy and laity to be held July 1-4 in Orlando, Florida, will be a powerful expression of “daily commitment to the new evangelization,” according to Dominican Sister Marie Bernadette Thompson, a leader within the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious.

Anti-death penalty activist says she wrestled with issue and ‘God won’

The death penalty appeals to many people on a gut level. After someone has heard about a very violent crime, often the person feels that the death penalty is a just response. Marietta Jaeger-Lane, whose 7 year old daughter was murdered, felt that at first too. She explains how she came to change her mind on the issue and now even works to end the death penalty.

Catholic leaders decry fourth Arkansas execution in eight days

“There is nothing pro-life about the state-sanctioned killing of an intellectually disabled man,” was just one of the many messages Sister Helen Prejean tweeted during Kenneth Williams’ final hours. His is the fourth execution in quick succession in the state of Arkansas.

Roman Missal calls Easter Vigil ‘mother of all vigils’ for a reason
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- April 16, 2017
The Easter Vigil is loaded with symbolism. It must take place after dark and begins with the lighting of the fire outside and the inside lighting of the Paschal candle, whose light is passed on to individual candles. There are seven Old Testament readings telling the salvation history, sung responses between readings and a sung proclamation called an Exsultet.
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Health care bill diagnosis: No input from those who care for sick
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- March 26, 2017
“We’ve just been dismissed,” Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, said about the Republican process of writing the AHCA, noting that she attended a few small group meetings on Capitol Hill, but “they were not meetings to get our input on what ought to be done with the bill but meetings to tell us what was going to be done. This has just been railroaded through Congress.”
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Confirmation hearings open for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- March 21, 2017
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, began the first day of Senate confirmation hearings. Democratic representatives are hesitant regarding his conservative position on reproductive rights. They are also still trying to negotiate how to handle this process given that President Obama’s nominee wasn’t given a hearing by the Republican-controlled senate when it was his due.
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